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the u.s. president outlines a possible military plan against syria but rochelle warns against democracy pabon officer in officials told the police in moscow. a suspected on those private sympathizer is drawing a call because this occurred in the czech republic just days before the norwegian mass killer is due to hear this verdict. plus washington slammed for al qaida style tactics striking those arriving to help victims of the earlier american drone array . the russian mob hits close in positive territory today with. the raising a week start to the week as old prices gain and hopes remain for europe's debt crisis to be resolved i mean times when it's time to have a bright down with a good.
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screen and all mine twenty four hours a day seven days a week here with our team and i'm karen. well moscow believes syria has chances of reaching peace despite those keeping the call flip burning inside and outside the country ways of ending the bloodshed has been under scrutiny for top syrian officials in moscow and across the atlantic president obama so in washington could use military action if there's any sign the syrian government might try to deploy its chemical or biological weapons lucy coffin of reports goes quite against moscow's position moscow has continued to insist that a political process towards peace is originated and settled within syria by syrians by the factions involved in the syrian civil war that's been escalating for nearly eighteen months now president barack obama's comments really cause. quite
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a global stir when he effectively said that the country would be willing to reconsider its opposition to military intervention if the government of president bashar al assad if he uses chemical or biological weapons the top a syrian negotiator who's in moscow for these talks had called the discussion of chemical weapons by the west as a pretext for intervention and potential an invasion it certainly doesn't sound like that based on president obama's comments but we do have to keep in mind that syria does maintain a rather large stockpile of both the chemical and biological weapons and the syrian government has threatened to use those if the country comes under for an attack so the best we could demise from all this is a lot of saber rattling but of course saber rattling that could have devastating implications for a peaceful negotiation to the crisis which is what moscow has been pushing for that has been echoed by foreign minister sergei lavrov he said the best of the west to do the best that external forces would have interest in syria could do is create a condition for internal talks to take place by the different factions cautious
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optimism from the russian foreign minister where he said there is hope some hope for a potential national reconciliation on the ground within syria but he did also warned that there's the good there's a lot of factions both within and outside of the country who do not want to see a political solution to this crisis we did hear from both the the syrians who are visiting in moscow and the russian foreign minister that there is an effort being made to bring a various sides to the negotiating table we did hear the syrian delegation say that they are welcoming any any members of the opposition who wish to negotiate will be welcome to their concerns will be heard out we also have to keep in mind that the situation isn't just about what's going on within syria there are external forces who are exerting influence in that country we've heard a lot of reports about arms being smuggled across the border for the opposition and effectively a radicalization of the escalating conflict so while all sides do seem to hope for some. sort of
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a political solution it is very difficult to see at this point whether that will actually play out on the ground moscow says only the un security council along can authorize the use of force against syria warning against unilateral action syria tribune editor dr ali mohamed says any reckless western interference only lead to more violence when i hear obama talking about chemical weapons out of the blue i can tell you with no doubt that they are preparing a chemical weapons scam the syrian government learned quite well from iraq from libya from other places if the government army is winning why would the government give the u.s. as a pretext to attack it mr obama talked about being warry that the chemical weapons would reach the bad guys and the question is why is he and his administration supporting the bad guys and sending them to syria if he doesn't want bad guys to control the chemical weapons why is he supporting them if obama attacks syria or directly or local proxy with or without the chemical weapon this will definitely
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lead to a diverse state in green a war that will create a whole new middle east. the drawn out fighting has instigated a mass exodus of syrians into neighboring countries the u.n. says at least one hundred seventy thousand people have already fled arches parsley or reports from the jordanian border. security here is tight and border controls are very very effective and this is a way for a man to deal with the growing influx of syrian refugees into this country now according to jordanian estimates at least one hundred and fifty thousand syrian refugees are currently in jordan they're being housed in refugee camps along this border with jordan in government has build forts in the process of building another one but the situation in those camps is alarming and has caused humanitarian groups to talk about a humanitarian crisis we know that the camps are overcrowded people there have little to no access to water and electricity at the same time to the closest was broken out of the jordanian health ministry is talking about health risks they were
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clashes last week between some of those refugees trying to break out of those camps because they actually can't leave them without permission now the violence is starting to spill over to jordan just monday there were four shells that landed here one of them badly hurt a young or jordanian go in a number of people were rushed to hospital so that as the syrian violence creeps closer and closer into neighboring jordan. foreign intervention doesn't always bring peace and stability to a country ravaged by bloody internal conflict as we discover shortly warnings that libya should brace itself for a surge of violence after a recent wave of bombings. police in the czech republic are investigating a man suspected of planning a massacre similar to those carried out by a norwegian on their sporadic last year weapons and police uniforms were discovered in his apartment just days before breivik is due to hear his verdict for killing
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seventy seven people in two attacks on exit a chef ski has the details. and off weaponry and explosives to kill dozens of people that was the discovery of the czech police when they raided at twenty nine year old man's apartment in the city of straw the man was reported by his neighbors to have some mental problems that's why the police decided to take action and later they arrested this man he was carrying a remote detonator for an explosive device on him when he was detained but it's also been revealed by the czech police that an explosive device made of an aircraft bomb was found in his apartment and they did it could have killed dozens of people it was believed to be a very powerful explosive device of several kilograms of explosives in it the police are now does not reveal and does not know what this man's intentions were but it already has all the reasons to believe that the man was a sympathizer of the killer from norway on this break who is due to have his
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verdict delivered this week sources within the interior ministry of the czech republic report that this man used a brave as he is on the internet in different forums and different social networks for now the police is trying to determine whether there have been any connection between the detained man and himself now we'll know little about this man for now that a few pictures had been. released by the czech media this man detained and cuffs on him being put in a police car but for now the police are trying to keep all the information secret regarding this man so that he won't have any more followers and they're trying to determine whether he actually had any more followers or if he was blinding to act alone. and still to come anonymous calls u.k. government websites suffered destruction at the hands of the notorious hackers and the tally asian for britain's street on wiki leaks founder children a song. plus abandoned and sometimes beaten and moves to protect russian
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orphans adopted a brawl at their stories are here in just a few minutes. washington is being internationally condemned for turning to al qaeda style tactics by using follow up strikes in its pakistan drone writes the attacks target those who arrive at the initial scene to help victims multiple american missiles have killed over a dozen people in pakistan in just the last few days in areas the u.s. claims are full of militants can has the story. the u.s. prides itself on the rule of law but on a number of issues the line between what's legal and what's not kind of blurred in the last decade or so is wiretapping legal no but in the name of national security yes there are attempts right now in congress to legalize big brother on the web by making it legal for providers to funnel all private correspondence to national security agencies the law in the u.s.
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protects free speech but never before has there been such a hunt for whistleblowers that's in america but as far as u.s. actions abroad the issue of what's legal and what's not even murkier washington has expanded its target assassinations program in different countries essentially putting itself above the law now i'm joined by john feffer author and co-director of the institute for policy studies he has an interesting theory of u.s. foreign policy he compares it to dexter the t.v. show dexter is a fictional character who is a good citizen by day and a serial killer by night but he only kills bad guys for what's so wrong about being dexter i mean everyone loves dexter it's a very popular t.v. show here in the united states and all across the world but difficult moral questions because of course dexter is judge jury and executioner and sometimes he makes mistakes and the united states too is in
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a similar position and united states often says it only kills the bad guys with some of the. other figures that have been attacked by drones over the last few years but the united states also makes mistakes that have been and the number of civilian casualties associated with these drone strikes so in some sense they're in a similar moral quandary dexter and the u.s. government as you said you know there's administration has expanded its drone program dramatically and the strikes in pakistan yemen and other places they end up killing many civilians we're talking about extra judicial killings. here's the question of pops out. you know when when someone does something outside the law they're usually afraid of getting caught but in the case of the us who is the police to catch them there is no police is there well there isn't any police of course there are international laws and there have been a number of reports on the implications of international law on the drone attacks
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and the un for instance report tour has condemned drone attacks as being illegal but i think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program one senior retired pakistani air force officer told us that the tactics america is using in its fight with terrorism a while back. the information which is being given out is very sketchy because especially since two thousand and nine the united states seems to have changed the rules it has. become
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sort of that militant will be considered a militant in respect of the fact. but the fact is that the relatives of the victims are approached by the terrorists and. for their lives have been targeted and killed it is high time that you can pick a revenge and in fact the number of terrorists who are being groomed and recruited in this way is rising so it is not just a double edged sword it is counterproductive and it is increasing terrorism rather than reducing it. sweden says it won't extradite julian assange to a third country if there was a risk it face the death penalty there and justice ministry official made the comments to a german nice paper london wants to hand to sweden to face sex crime accusations but the wiki leaks editor fears who end up on trial in the u.s. all for the release of american diplomatic cables assad has been hiding for two months in the london embassy in fact with the life which has granted him asylum
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britain says it will not let him safely leave its soil i didn't threaten to break until i am asked to sign a move at all ex-president warned would be diplomatic see the internet hacker group known as anonymous managed to temporarily take down several you take government sites over the treatment of jarana sobs. anonymous is doing that has been going on there so it's very beginning. name. because he has this organization has become one of the most driving forces in something very very positive but necessary. arrangements as we used to do you know. mindset which we consider scenarios and their governments that's why this is always been a major issue that i missed and why what we've seen of the thank you actually when we see the behavior of the sort we've seen from britain for instance of the last few weeks saying such things as al you gave does not acknowledge you believe you
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applied to another nation a government that's up to the office of the west has indeed has forged it in terms of diplomatic policy in effect that william hague would say something about if the action shows us what who we're dealing with the terms of our grazing if we're going to have to do so you know we're always a very very happy that people have many many options by which to get involved in this situation in which one side is very obvious again criminal behavior and the other side is engaging in assault but those it's not the only her. attack on the at the moment as we report our team to help calm this was the home page of the moscow court's website and that is a bulgarian transit transvestite singer looking back at you as hackers out at the jailing of an type of punk band pussy riot. and apple may be the world's most valuable company at the moment but it's not the biggest ever details of history's tektites that's now a shadow of its former self all at r.t.
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dot com. egypt demanding that libyan authorities ensure the security of its diplomatic mission there it's after an egyptian diplomats car was blown up in the city of benghazi and a day after eight twenty two people in the libyan capital the authorities blame loyalists of the deposed leader moammar gadhafi. have. let me remains unstable since the nato backed popular uprising and it's not our. last year on the editor of new york and that's to get a newspaper blackstar believes the latest violence could indicate other forces interests in the chaos and the country. it's not definitely know who could be behind these kind of actions i think what might be disturbing is that normally when these kind of activities start they don't just and so sadly the could be such more actions similar explosions in the days and months to come and judging by
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the situation on the ground it's not clear that things are any better in libya today than before the nature intervention i think there's a rush to try to create a semblance of normalcy you really cannot have stability without addressing the issues of the weapons that are widely available at the end of the day the people that really exercise power in libya today are the armed militias there were some. talk and the international criminal court that nato would have to be brought to account for what amounted to war crimes who is going to address those issues so rather than focusing on the proposed trial of the son of qaddafi that's really addressed the more serious issues the destruction on libya that was caused by the nato who is going to compensate libyans for the lives that were lost and the property that were destroyed that to me seems to be a much more serious issue than the proposed trial of one of qaddafi surviving sons
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. to some other news making international headlines now a car bomb near a police station in southeast turkey has killed at least nine people including four children and wounded scores of others the kurdistan workers party was suspected of the attack comes amid intensified clashes between turkish troops and kurdish rebels who are fighting for a lot of autonomy this region however the group denies carrying out the bombing. a gun battle in lebanon's northern city of tripoli has left at least two dead and several others injured countries endured a number of clashes between supporters and opposers of the regime in neighboring syria the military moved into qualifying on both sides but it later we started. an insurgent attack on a u.s. air base in afghanistan damaged the plane of america's top military officer general martin dempsey was not near the aircraft at the time but two maintenance crew were
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slightly wounded dempsey was in kabul to discuss the recent wave of so-called friendly fire attacks by afghan soldiers against international forces behead on the general's plane is embarrassing for american forces after the taliban claim to have shot down one of their helicopters once we. remain as president has now only escaped impeachment but only because turnout at a referendum on his future was below fifty percent or so schools been at loggerheads with the center left government which uses him of interfering in the law and parliamentary business but he's also behind deeply divisive and twelve sturdy measures which have been getting her own backing. it looks like another stalemate in talks to finalize a love and a half billion euros for greece with germany unwilling to compromise athens is once again falling behind on implementing reforms in return. for the e.u. and i.m.f.
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bailout letter a former executive of germany's central bank says the single currency is an added bonus but by no means a necessity for europe to survive. the northern states did not to profit from the euro but it didn't. appear know the southern states including france probably could approach from their credit boom i know there are we damaged by all right been calling for calm balanced to fit. into that or europe is a cultural idea and nothing this does if. they google fields that are preserved gives the values the common currency is not necessary it . can have if you've made it is maybe some saying the
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nice to have but it is definitely not a must have. and you can hear more from former german that central bank executive talos are also in in just over an hour. every year thousands of russian or friends are adopted by american families with the help of giving them a fresh start in life however it doesn't always work out with tragic stories of abandonment and beatings for some parties you go to school reports there is still one place those vulnerable children can call home. he's ten years old but has already been through more than most people would face in a way of showing more that. this boy suffered deep psychological trauma as he often becomes secluded locks himself out from the rest of the world and when it comes to america he still never talks about it. in his relatively short life are the terms
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already been abandoned twice first by his biological russian mother and then by his american forster mother she changed her mind just six months after the adoption dumping him all alone on a flight back to moscow with nothing more than a note and a change of underwear for the last six months of john has been living in a children's s. always village just outside moscow an international project that brings a new format to the traditional concept of children's homes and foster families here in jordan move in groups in separate houses each group then has its own foster mother heading up what are termed himself now called a real family that. the main goal for now is to help our to recover to get over his psychological problems and catch up education wise there's a large gap between what he knows and what he's supposed to know at this age. dozens of other children live in this village and although it's on declined to
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speak on camera he's once again playing and talking with the others abandoned twice it's hard to imagine what sort of stress i'd have to go off and fortunately in a lot taking time but he is recovering surrounded by other children unfortunately thomas white has not been an isolated case. around sixty thousand russian children have been adopted by american families over the past two decades but twenty children have died through neglect and cases of mistreatment have become all too common. also no you or she is deal with you one family adopted six girls from russia and use them to film porn they've now been convicted another us family specifically adopted children with disabilities just to mock them they tied them up threw them into a swimming pool put hoses in their mouths and turned on the water and these are just the cases we know of moscow is calling for the creation of a separate body within the u.s. government that will monitor the lives of children adopted from russia to prevent
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such stories of neglect ever happening again and as for other tombs former forster mother she was fined sixty thousand dollars by a us court and ordered to be a quarter of her salary every single month until he's eighteen to a boy she rejected despite once having legally agreed to love and protect you got this going to moscow. right for business and people seem to be losing faith and paper money and looking for other places to park their cash isn't the right exactly karen it's all because in these times of uncertainty it's commodities that are becoming even more popular for a place to invest with food and material prices now hitting record highs says a lot on the matter. it's five years ago the saugus that the world walk up to the shock we now call the global financial crisis successful investing during
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these years proved challenging it turns out commodities namely corn gold and brant crude offered the biggest return strong double digits here compared to modest gains for the footsie and the s. and p. and the losses for japan's nikkei and it may not be too late to join in the. one of these boo take a look at the core it's prices hit a record high on friday as the u.s. government slashed its forecast for the drought damaged crop do worst drought in more than a half a century i should add overnighted became the hottest commodity on the list but it still has a lot of top its dramatic rises also the result of even all increasingly becoming part of the ghastly mix the second harvest is gold it july it saw the largest quarterly price drop since two thousand and eight or the bad news about the state of the global economy suggests central banks will increase stimuli read crank up
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the printing press and turn away on the u.s. dollar that will boost gold as an alternative investment it's now priced well below its inflation adjusted high over around two thousand four hundred dollars an ounce of reached in one nine hundred eighty last but not least is crude arguably it's the most popular commodity and that's understandable since it's part of nearly every faucet or every day lives from fuel to fertilizers and cosmetics with branch trading around one hundred fifteen dollars a barrel it still has a lot of upside before it tops its record high of one hundred forty seven and a quarter dollars it reached in two thousand and eight. despite the crisis false food chains of banking or more people eating out major chicken specialist now wants to enter the us a market opening up twenty stores in two years the chain over its controversial lots and tasty chicken has been a one of the world's top thirty browns yemi that's going to have to wall street
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then and see that they are now entering the third hour she stateside and as we can see they all will be strengthening they gained some reading speculation that the euro leaders will make progress this we in resolving the region's debt crisis is keeping the stalls. above the waterline as you can see is around a third of a percent of the bourses has given to europe because they're about to pack up and go home and as we conceive a two hour strengthening their games as they enter the last hour of the trading day as we can see that we've got games for the footy on the dance for the thirty seven turns a reserve for the down side tens of a percent already a lot of that is because a well received spanish auction took place today with foreign costs going down as relieving some pressure let's get on to the exchange rates that we have got the common car is indeed gaining in the session the russian car is a do indeed finish high as you can see against both occurrences against the us
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dollar the you're experiencing the biggest days in a fortnight this is the price of bread all goes over one hundred fourteen dollars per barrel as good as the ecb is very quickly and day would just be able to see how they closed up as you can see strong gains here in moscow and that's all we've got time for carol about fifty five minutes. katie now if you stick with us we'll be back with the headlines and after that we have our latest addition all because reports stay with us.
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